Tag: Orecchiette

• Cooking like a local: Pugliese Style! – All things Cardoncelli

  

  This week’s seasonal dishes are based on cardoncelli mushrooms, which are a flat based mushrooms from the Puglia region. Last time I cooked with cardoncelli mushrooms, there wasn’t much left of them after I’d scrubbed all the dirt out from the tiny grooves underneath the cap of the mushroom! So this time I was a […]

  Valerie Knott

  25/04/2015

  Cooking like a local, Culture and Traditions, Food and Wine

  Cardoncelli, Cooking like a local, Expat cooking like a local, Italian Culture, Italian food, Italian Passion, Italian Traditions, Local food, Mushrooms, Orecchiette, Pasta, Salento, Traditional Pugliese Food, wereareinpuglia

• Puglian Pasta – Orecchiette

  Every region in Italy has its own pasta shape and Orecchiette, is synonymous with Puglia. The word actually means small ears! Why? Because if you look close enough, its form resembles small ears! Orecchiette is made from semolina flour instead of plain flour which is used to make most pasta. This allows more flavours to […]

  Valerie Knott

  23/01/2015

  Culture and Traditions, Food and Wine

  Bari, Bari Vecchia, Brindisi, Cime di rape, Italy, Little ears, Orecchiette, Pasta, Pasta Recipe, Popular Pasta, Puglia, Puglian Pasta, Pugliese Pasta, Regional Food, Regional Pasta, Southern Italy, Traditional Food

• Orecchiette con le Cime di Rape

  Orecchiette con le Cime di Rape (with turnip tops) is the most popular dish in Puglia, especially in the province of Bari and Brindisi. The locals say that Cime di rape contains lot of nutrients that could help fight against cancers, this could be why it’s so popular and features a least once or twice […]

  Valerie Knott

  23/01/2015

  Culture and Traditions, Food and Wine

  Cime di rape, Health benefits, Italian, Italy, Orecchiette, Pasta, Puglia, Recipes, Traditional Food, Traditional Pugliese Food